Re: Do I need to call the river with KK here?
Reads on opponent:
1. I usually reraise here preflop.
2. QJ against a button, especially if he is aggressive, is pretty dangerous territory. KA, 109, K10, club draws are amongst a myriad of problematic hands. Obv., [censored] like JJ, QQ, QJ are plausible holdings that have you beat already. If you're going to check (which I don't do here), you should be check raising and getting him all in there with his QA, KQ and folding his draws/paying for them. You'll get value from QA/KQ because a lot of people will assuming you are on a flush draw/straight draw. If you bet and he pushes, you still should call...though it would give me pause and if I had a good read on his play, I may lay it down.
2. If you bet here on the turn, you are basically committed, so no, don't fold to a raise.
3. Call the river because of pot odds. He still has KQ, QA enough here to make things profitable.
This is a pretty inescapable hand at 70BB (maybe not so at 100BB and definitely not so at 100BB+) and, from the looks of it, he had QJ? Hopefully he had 109 so you could learn from your mistake here, which basically was not betting out the flop.
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